WGP2 Season One - Driver Signups (Open)/OOC Thread

[Swanduland]

Driver Name: Dröttc Sxiögivilin
Nationality (Trigram): Swandulandian
Gender: Male
Preferred Number: 12
Short Biography: Dröttc is a brown-haired handsome person who had a dream of racing since early childhood. He had a happy and nice childhood.

Aggression (Between 2 and 5):2.3
Technique (Between 2 and 5):4.8
Reliability (Between 2 and 5):4.9
[Total must equal 12]

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

Driver Name: Dröttc Sxiögivilin
Nationality (Trigram): Swandulandian
Gender: Male
Preferred Number: 12
Short Biography: Dröttc is a brown-haired handsome person who had a dream of racing since early childhood. He had a happy and nice childhood.

Aggression (Between 2 and 5):3.3
Technique (Between 2 and 5):4.8
Reliability (Between 2 and 5):4.9
[Total must equal 12]

Sorry to say but that equals 13!

[Swanduland]

Driver Name: Dröttc Sxiögivilin
Nationality (Trigram): Swandulandian
Gender: Male
Preferred Number: 12
Short Biography: Dröttc is a brown-haired handsome person who had a dream of racing since early childhood. He had a happy and nice childhood.

Aggression (Between 2 and 5):3.3
Technique (Between 2 and 5):4.8
Reliability (Between 2 and 5):4.9
[Total must equal 12]

Sorry to say but that equals 13!

oh ok time to edit

[Swanduland]

Sorry to say but that equals 13!

oh ok time to edit

I've done editing!

[Suvuna]

Driver Name:Aneh Gofidod
Nationality (Trigram):SUV
Gender: Male
Preferred Number:79
Short Biography: Suvuna's Most experienced driver ( which isn't saying much with only 8 racers who compete in Suvuna's league.) 21 years old and is attending a college in vosi and is the six time champion of the Suvuna grand prix.

Aggression (Between 2 and 5):3
Technique (Between 2 and 5):5
Reliability (Between 2 and 5):4
[Total must equal 12]

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

I'm sorry to let down those of you who really want to read a roleplayed lecture on how motor racing relates to international politics (though that actually does sound rather interesting); I unfortunately won't be roleplaying everything that I've listed in my latest post! You can expect a few things from there to be roleplayed out, though.

Regarding Ryker's inauguration ceremony fastest lap setting, I have asked Audioslavia via telegram if he wants to run the numbers through the WGPC scorinator; he, however, has been inactive for a few days now and I fear that he won't be available by Thursday. While I am reasonably confident in my ability to work out the version of the scorinator that he put out towards the end of the WGPC 15 season, I'm growing increasingly inclined to instead wait until he returns and then retroactively add the result to my post for the ceremony so that Ryker's lap is properly qualified for being added to the official records. I'd find advice useful on this matter, so if anyone has an opinion please do state it.

[Vangaziland]

So we're skipping that practice session we missed and going to the next race day, right? Or are we just pushing back a week. I'm working on a special project and I'd like to release it on a race week. I've spent 3 hours creating a character and setting up the first shot. I want to get two more shots. I still have to think them up. And then I'll work a story up. But what's coming up this weekend? I'll gladly push that story's release back a week if need be.

[Eastfield Lodge]

Apologies guys, uni just started up for me, spent the last few days moving and settling in.
The first mid-season test will be tonight (i.e, in about four hours), and the rest of the schedule will be pushed back a week.

[Vangaziland]

Thanks for the update... I had a major delay on the rendering, but it's all good now. More time to work on that. Meanwhile, enjoy college...

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

Apologies guys, uni just started up for me, spent the last few days moving and settling in.
The first mid-season test will be tonight (i.e, in about four hours), and the rest of the schedule will be pushed back a week.

More time for me to build up vast amounts of RP bonus, I suppose... Anyway, good luck with your endeavours!

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

Okay, I think it's time for me to state my concerns. Esmerel and I made seven of the nine roleplaying posts that were put up before the test was scorinated. The roleplaying bonus affecting Rebecca (both for her individually and the team as a whole) should be highly significant. Given the above, on a track that is not particularly biased towards either aggressiveness or technique, she should not have the third slowest time.

Unless there is anything obvious that I am missing, I do not believe that Nexus Racing should be doing as consistently poorly as they are, even taking random chance into account. I fear that there is something going seriously wrong with the scorination process.

[Eastfield Lodge]

Okay, I think it's time for me to state my concerns. Esmerel and I made seven of the nine roleplaying posts that were put up before the test was scorinated. The roleplaying bonus affecting Rebecca (both for her individually and the team as a whole) should be highly significant. Given the above, on a track that is not particularly biased towards either aggressiveness or technique, she should not have the third slowest time.

Unless there is anything obvious that I am missing, I do not believe that Nexus Racing should be doing as consistently poorly as they are, even taking random chance into account. I fear that there is something going seriously wrong with the scorination process.

What I think is happening is that because Darlington has an R of 5, and is in a car with an R of 5, she has the highest combined reliability rating of anyone on the grid, but as a consequence also has the lowest A/C ratings. Looks like the way that the scorinator works is that in a long testing session like the mid-season tests and Friday practice, the R is rendered mostly pointless (because everyone is able to run one clean top level lap), and therefore it comes down to pure speed, where in this case Darlington lags at the back of grid (before RP bonus is applied, Darlington had the lowest combined A stat, and the second lowest combined C stat). The Reliability comes into play more during a shorter session like qualifying (and especially in two-tier qualifying).

I think you should also bear in mind that the time split is less than half a second from first to last over the course of a over a two minute lap in the wet, which is a variation of about 0.35% - for comparison, the most recent RL GP2 (Budapest on a dry track) was 1.84%. The top nine cars here are covered by a tenth of a second, whereas it's only the top two in Budapest.

Also, it's a revamped scorinator that's being used in its first ever season, so it's gonna need fine-tuning as we go on.

[The Iron Syndicate]

Okay, I think it's time for me to state my concerns. Esmerel and I made seven of the nine roleplaying posts that were put up before the test was scorinated. The roleplaying bonus affecting Rebecca (both for her individually and the team as a whole) should be highly significant. Given the above, on a track that is not particularly biased towards either aggressiveness or technique, she should not have the third slowest time.

Unless there is anything obvious that I am missing, I do not believe that Nexus Racing should be doing as consistently poorly as they are, even taking random chance into account. I fear that there is something going seriously wrong with the scorination process.

What I think is happening is that because Darlington has an R of 5, and is in a car with an R of 5, she has the highest combined reliability rating of anyone on the grid, but as a consequence also has the lowest A/C ratings. Looks like the way that the scorinator works is that in a long testing session like the mid-season tests and Friday practice, the R is rendered mostly pointless (because everyone is able to run one clean top level lap), and therefore it comes down to pure speed, where in this case Darlington lags at the back of grid (before RP bonus is applied, Darlington had the lowest combined A stat, and the second lowest combined C stat). The Reliability comes into play more during a shorter session like qualifying (and especially in two-tier qualifying).

I think you should also bear in mind that the time split is less than half a second from first to last over the course of a over a two minute lap in the wet, which is a variation of about 0.35% - for comparison, the most recent RL GP2 (Budapest on a dry track) was 1.84%. The top nine cars here are covered by a tenth of a second, whereas it's only the top two in Budapest.

Also, it's a revamped scorinator that's being used in its first ever season, so it's gonna need fine-tuning as we go on.

I should back this up with my own experience from last season, because I determined myself that aggression is really crucial to winning. Jeremy Jensen-Fletcher was an alright mid table driver last season with basically no support from the Fireline team in the way of RP. Maria Cattaneo, on the other hand, would have had the title with a second win but couldn't get it because of not having a good A number. Armo Lehto is struggling so much this season even with semi-consistent RP. Luna, on the other hand, is one of the better drivers but has higher aggression than control. All the stats matter, sure, but in my experience A has made the biggest difference in performance.

[Aboveland]

I'd love to know why the Novikov car isn't doing as well as I figured. It seems to me that reliability and cornering are more important than acceleration. Perhaps this scorinator takes those values differently than the WGPC one, where cars usually balanced around 5/4/3 are better than those tilted towards reliability.

Also, my house is being painted atm, so I won't be able to RP the cornering (IC suspension) and reliability improvements (both developed during the break) to the car in time for the next race. I'd love if Luna and Juracai RPed the development tests at HQ from their points of view I'll go with whatever you two say.

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

Okay, I think it's time for me to state my concerns. Esmerel and I made seven of the nine roleplaying posts that were put up before the test was scorinated. The roleplaying bonus affecting Rebecca (both for her individually and the team as a whole) should be highly significant. Given the above, on a track that is not particularly biased towards either aggressiveness or technique, she should not have the third slowest time.

Unless there is anything obvious that I am missing, I do not believe that Nexus Racing should be doing as consistently poorly as they are, even taking random chance into account. I fear that there is something going seriously wrong with the scorination process.

What I think is happening is that because Darlington has an R of 5, and is in a car with an R of 5, she has the highest combined reliability rating of anyone on the grid, but as a consequence also has the lowest A/C ratings. Looks like the way that the scorinator works is that in a long testing session like the mid-season tests and Friday practice, the R is rendered mostly pointless (because everyone is able to run one clean top level lap), and therefore it comes down to pure speed, where in this case Darlington lags at the back of grid (before RP bonus is applied, Darlington had the lowest combined A stat, and the second lowest combined C stat). The Reliability comes into play more during a shorter session like qualifying (and especially in two-tier qualifying).

I think you should also bear in mind that the time split is less than half a second from first to last over the course of a over a two minute lap in the wet, which is a variation of about 0.35% - for comparison, the most recent RL GP2 (Budapest on a dry track) was 1.84%. The top nine cars here are covered by a tenth of a second, whereas it's only the top two in Budapest.

Also, it's a revamped scorinator that's being used in its first ever season, so it's gonna need fine-tuning as we go on.

I would agree if this was isolated to Practice. It isn't. Rebecca has qualified 15th, 22nd, 18th and 17th; her top race finish has been 10th. By contrast, Marika Pedanovic, with the exact same attributes as Rebecca when combined with the Chase Cutter's own in each season, won her first WGPC race and on average qualified 12th (actually 11.75th) while The Serbian Empire, Marika's roleplayer, certainly posted less frequently than Esmerel is doing now.

I should back this up with my own experience from last season, because I determined myself that aggression is really crucial to winning. Jeremy Jensen-Fletcher was an alright mid table driver last season with basically no support from the Fireline team in the way of RP. Maria Cattaneo, on the other hand, would have had the title with a second win but couldn't get it because of not having a good A number. Armo Lehto is struggling so much this season even with semi-consistent RP. Luna, on the other hand, is one of the better drivers but has higher aggression than control. All the stats matter, sure, but in my experience A has made the biggest difference in performance.

Odd, particularly considering that the scorination mechanism that Audioslavia described when he posted his 'Racing Scorinator' - which I think that this based on, correct me if I'm wrong - treated aggressiveness and technique equally, only differing in importance based on circuit.

I'm sorry if it looks like I'm throwing a tantrum but I really am utterly baffled as to why Nexus Racing are doing as badly as they are. Seriously, if anyone knows anything that I should be doing that I'm not, please tell me - it will be so much easier if there is.

[Vangaziland]

I wouldn't bring up a concern about the results. RP bonus does not guarantee wins. The numbers play into the scorinator too. It is what it is. People lose to Margaret all the time. With all my Olympic RPing, I've had plenty of 80s and 90s not medal or even do poorly. 'Them's' the brakes. You won the WGPC. Great. One tourney's win does not guarantee that your car and team will always be the best. Life sucks, is the bottom line, until proven otherwise. Just RP and enjoy the results.

Besides, I've written as least as much RP as anyone else (especially considering the time & money I put into some of those car images). So if our RP bonuses are about equal, you still have to battle the numbers. That's all it is. Numbers and random results. Concerns should be placed at ease.

Meanwhile, I'm furious at my 3D software. I have been working on something since about 9am and it's almost 7pm. I'll probably give up on the new, fancy textures I wanted to add. But I hope the work will be appreciated and enjoyed because it's only ticking me off, actually. Not one pic is final yet, but the time will pay off.

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

I wouldn't bring up a concern about the results. RP bonus does not guarantee wins. The numbers play into the scorinator too. It is what it is. People lose to Margaret all the time. With all my Olympic RPing, I've had plenty of 80s and 90s not medal or even do poorly. 'Them's' the brakes. You won the WGPC. Great. One tourney's win does not guarantee that your car and team will always be the best. Life sucks, is the bottom line, until proven otherwise. Just RP and enjoy the results.

I acknowledge all of that completely (the emboldened sentence particularly appeals to the existentialist in me); it just seems odd that the lacklustre performance be so consistent.

Gah, I don't know; you have the experience to judge and I don't, I suppose. I have, actually, been considering a plotline that will unify a lot of the individual character arcs that I've been spinning based on Nexus Racing's lack of success which I hope will be fairly interesting, so I hope that something good does come out of this, as you say!

Meanwhile, I'm furious at my 3D software. I have been working on something since about 9am and it's almost 7pm. I'll probably give up on the new, fancy textures I wanted to add. But I hope the work will be appreciated and enjoyed because it's only ticking me off, actually. Not one pic is final yet, but the time will pay off.

I once again look forward to the showcasing of your talent!

[Vangaziland]

If I had any bit of heart left, it would reflect through that story. From the painted map, to the looks in their eyes.. To those songs. These ones are worth a listen, by the way. They'll add to the story. This one should write itself now that it's all set up. I've worked out way too many details for this arc.

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

If I had any bit of heart left, it would reflect through that story. From the painted map, to the looks in their eyes.. To those songs. These ones are worth a listen, by the way. They'll add to the story. This one should write itself now that it's all set up. I've worked out way too many details for this arc.

Hmm... Well, this is certainly intriguing. I look forward to see how you use this to explore the wider narrative of the roleplay!

[Vangaziland]

Thanks!

[Swanduland]

Driver Name: Dröttc Sxiögivilin
Nationality (Trigram): Swandulandian
Gender: Male
Preferred Number: 12
Short Biography: Dröttc is a brown-haired handsome person who had a dream of racing since early childhood. He had a happy and nice childhood.

Aggression (Between 2 and 5):2.3
Technique (Between 2 and 5):4.8
Reliability (Between 2 and 5):4.9
[Total must equal 12]

former citizens of the nimbus system I edited it now will you accept me?

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

Driver Name: Dröttc Sxiögivilin
Nationality (Trigram): Swandulandian
Gender: Male
Preferred Number: 12
Short Biography: Dröttc is a brown-haired handsome person who had a dream of racing since early childhood. He had a happy and nice childhood.

Aggression (Between 2 and 5):2.3
Technique (Between 2 and 5):4.8
Reliability (Between 2 and 5):4.9
[Total must equal 12]

Former Citizens of the Nimbus System I edited it now will you accept me?

Not my place, I'm afraid! You'll have to ask Eastfield Lodge about it.

[Swanduland]

Former Citizens of the Nimbus System I edited it now will you accept me?

Not my place, I'm afraid! You'll have to ask Eastfield Lodge about it.

Ok

[Eastfield Lodge]

Driver Name: Dröttc Sxiögivilin
Nationality (Trigram): Swandulandian
Gender: Male
Preferred Number: 12
Short Biography: Dröttc is a brown-haired handsome person who had a dream of racing since early childhood. He had a happy and nice childhood.

Aggression (Between 2 and 5):2.3
Technique (Between 2 and 5):4.8
Reliability (Between 2 and 5):4.9
[Total must equal 12]

Driver Name:Aneh Gofidod
Nationality (Trigram):SUV
Gender: Male
Preferred Number:79
Short Biography: Suvuna's Most experienced driver ( which isn't saying much with only 8 racers who compete in Suvuna's league.) 21 years old and is attending a college in vosi and is the six time champion of the Suvuna grand prix.

Aggression (Between 2 and 5):3
Technique (Between 2 and 5):5
Reliability (Between 2 and 5):4
[Total must equal 12]

Both accepted.

[Former Citizens of the Nimbus System]

Oh, yes! Nexus Racing is back, ladies and gentlemen!

(Though probably only for this Grand Prix, since we get the home race bonus at Crossbay Circuit.)

I suppose that I shouldn't be too worried, should I? Sorry about the ruckus last week, everyone.